[time-nuts] DPC Latency

2011-06-18 Thread Bob Camp
Hi DPC Latency = Deferred Procedure Call Latency = how long it takes Windows to get around to doing what it should do real time. Put another way - how lazy is your computer? It may not be a big issue, but it's probably worth checking for free: http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml We

Re: [time-nuts] DPC Latency

2011-06-18 Thread William H. Fite
Those of us who run SDRs are all too familiar with the DPC issue... You're right, this is a useful little tool. Bill On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: Hi DPC Latency = Deferred Procedure Call Latency = how long it takes Windows to get around to doing what it

Re: [time-nuts] DPC Latency

2011-06-18 Thread Bob Camp
Hi I did indeed originally come across it in the SDR context. Bob On Jun 18, 2011, at 9:46 AM, William H. Fite wrote: Those of us who run SDRs are all too familiar with the DPC issue... You're right, this is a useful little tool. Bill On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Bob Camp

Re: [time-nuts] DPC Latency

2011-06-18 Thread David J Taylor
Hi DPC Latency = Deferred Procedure Call Latency = how long it takes Windows to get around to doing what it should do real time. Put another way - how lazy is your computer? It may not be a big issue, but it's probably worth checking for free: http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml We

Re: [time-nuts] DPC Latency

2011-06-18 Thread Bob Camp
Hi My concern would be a really bad driver that spikes into the 1,000's of us every so often. Every once in a great while there could be a collision. That would really drive you crazy trying to find it. Bob On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:04 AM, David J Taylor wrote: Hi DPC Latency = Deferred

Re: [time-nuts] DPC Latency

2011-06-18 Thread David J Taylor
Hi My concern would be a really bad driver that spikes into the 1,000's of us every so often. Every once in a great while there could be a collision. That would really drive you crazy trying to find it. Bob Indeed, Bob. On a critical system, it might be best to establish a baseline for

Re: [time-nuts] DPC Latency

2011-06-18 Thread gary
I tried two PCs and my D525 system has 2mS hits. Unfortunately this program doesn't really aid in finding the glitch. I turned off the sound and not much difference. My AMD quad core has peaks of 200us. Regarding linux, I've never tried them, but there are hacks to reduce the latency. Google

Re: [time-nuts] DPC Latency

2011-06-18 Thread gary
Doing a bit of bios hacking, DPC shows better results with Plug and Play enabled. It is my understanding that it is better to let the bios handle plug and play rather than the OS, but the results are better with Plug and Play handled by win7. ___

Re: [time-nuts] DPC Latency

2011-06-18 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Like any basic tool it's just a start. Simply knowing that the system has this or that latency compared to another system is a useful piece of data. Anything under 100 us isn't going to be easy to find. Stuff that's into the many ms range probably should be tracked down. Bob On Jun 18,